James
Blake has revealed he is not as depressed as his music would have us believe.
The
25-year-old Londoner has won legions of fans via his sombre, minimalist electronic
tunes but assured Guilty Pleasures he is not in need of an intervention against
sadness.
‘I’m
not a very sad man,’ the songwriter laughed at the Barclaycard Mercury Music
prize event in Camden on Wednesday.
Promising
to be more lively on his next record he added: ‘It will be more upbeat. I want
to write a good one. Just to make it better than the last one.’
Perhaps
in an effort to showcase his more humorous personality traits he joked about building
a crazy golf course with the £20,000 prize fund he won after scooping the Mercury
with second album, Overgrown, which was released in April.
‘I
would build a crazy golf course for the front garden – even though I’m not a
crazy golf fan,’ he joked.
‘The
course will be of all the other artists from the [Mercury Prize nominees] in miniature,
gnome style. They will be holding miniature golf clubs.’
[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Thursday 31 October 2013]
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